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Quoting "Simon St.Laurent" <>:
> On 4/8/11 7:47 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I am reading about the history of HTML5. This blog from Tim
>> Berners-Lee seems to be quite important:
>>
>> http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166
>>
>> Here's something he states in that blog:
>>
>> Some things are clearer with hindsight of several years.
>> It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt
>> to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around
>> attribute values and slashes in empty tags and namespaces
>> all at once didn't work.
>
> Yeah, it didn't. I don't think TimBL ever really "got" XML, though,
> and it's more than a little amusing to hear him of all people
> complain that namespaces were a problem for adoption.
>
> (The HTML5 chairs just agreed to let namespace prefixes survive into
> HTML5:
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0689.html>
> It's notable from an XML perspective that it was an issue.)
>
> I frequently wish that XML had been standardized some place other
> than the W3C, which promptly polluted it with weirdly broken if you
> looked closely URI-based notions from the (useful but different) RDF
> work its upper folks really cared about.
>
> I understand quite well, though, that it seemed like the best option
> at the time.
>
> --
> Simon St.Laurent
> http://simonstl.com/
>
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